Backpacking in Yosemite - the Alpine Lakes

Spend four days backpacking in Yosemite! in the wilderness of Yosemite National Park! Hike from your base camp to beautiful lakes and awe-inspiring peaks and spend the nights staring at the stars from your campfire.

The Yosemite mountains, part of the 400 miles long mountain range of Sierra Nevada, is one of the most beautiful places in the world, with elevation from 2-13,000 feet and steep granite cliffs. The area around the Yosemite high country and Ansel Adam’s wilderness forms the northern end of the High Sierra, home to beautiful alpine lakes covering the landscape amongst the peaks. Hiking up to the heights of the boundary peaks of the Yosemite National Park, rewards you with unbeatable views of its most famous sights – it is not listed as a UNESCO World Heritage site and visited by 3,5 million people a year for nothing!

This trip traverses the borderline between the two wilderness areas of Ansel Adams and Yosemite National Park. With a mixture of on-and off-trail hiking, you will have the surroundings to yourself as you make your way to a remote base camp, from where day trips to alpine lakes and high peaks will be made. The trip is customized to your abilities and wishes, providing you with options of where to go each day and thereby a chance to pick your own highlights, whether they be alpine lakes or the Yosemite national park, or just the wilderness itself.

Before embarking on a trip like this, you should be confident that you are fit and motivated to complete the hike to base camp with a backpack, as well as enjoying the day trips that will have some elevation gain. The trip is graded as “beginner/intermediary”, and with some training and hiking experience this should be within the reach of most people in normal physical condition.

This trip is suitable for both single and group travellers, but you need to be comfortable with sharing a hotel room with members of the group - singles do not need to share tents though. Group sizes vary from 3 to 12 participants, with 1 or 2 guides.